Officers pool money for shoes for kids in shoplifting case

Published 1:15 pm, Tuesday, December 1, 2015

LUDINGTON (AP) — Members of a western Michigan sheriff's department pooled their money to buy shoes for children caught up in a shoplifting case.

The Ludington Daily News reports Mason County sheriff's Sgt. Adam Lamb, Deputy Kyle Boyd and Deputy John Balowski responded in October to a shoplifting complaint at a Wal-Mart where the children's parents tried to steal shoes by having them wear them out of the store.

The officers took a complaint and pursued legal action against the children's father, but then pooled their money and paid for shoes for the children.